Allegheny County coronavirus cases jump by 63 as total tops 400

Allegheny County reported 63 new cases of the coronavirus Thursday, an 18% increase from Wednesday, bringing the countywide total to 419.

Of that total, two Allegheny County residents have died from complications from covid-19.

Over the past week, about 500 people have been tested per day, a significant increase over the 1,614 tests reported to have been performed on Allegheny County residents as of last Thursday, Dr. LuAnn Brink, chief epidemiologist for the Allegheny County Health Department, said during a press briefing Tuesday.

The department is working to make more demographic information about cases in Allegheny County available to the public, and that information is expected to be available within a week, Brink said.

Most of the county’s 70 hospitalizations have been among older adults, officials said.

The cases are split about evenly between genders: 213 women and 206 men.

Here is a breakdown of cases in Allegheny County.

The City of Pittsburgh continues to report the most cases in the county, with 125, according to a heat map showing cases throughout the county last updated by officials Wednesday.

That map does not include a breakdown of cases by city neighborhood or ZIP code.

Among other municipalities, the map showed McCandless had at least 17 cases, Baldwin Borough had 10, and Bethel Park, Mount Lebanon and Richland Township each reported nine.

More than 54,000 people across Pennsylvania have been tested for covid-19, according to figures released Thursday by the state health department.

Of that total, 7,016 people have tested positive and 90 people, including the two in Allegheny County, have died from complications from covid-19.

While at least 41% of infections statewide are occurring in people between the ages of 25 and 49, the most hospitalizations — at least 50% — are occurring among people over the age of 65.

Cases in Allegheny County match those trends.